The second and perhaps more important causal factor was Napoleon’s destruction which I would call the imperial deterrent. The first was an accumulation of internal grievances both on the part of the elites, and on the part of non-elites in Latin-American societies there were quite different grievances and complaints, but they were nonetheless destabilizing.
There are two sets of factors that were quite important. I became a Latin Americanist just at a moment in when Latin America was particularly interesting.ĥ How could you explain the beginning of the independentist movements in Latin America? Coatsworth was asked questions which would either concern the problems, the tendencies and the new steps regarding contemporary Latin American history.ģLatin America - 19 th Century - 20 Century - International relations -Economy-Politics First part: the revolutions of independenceĤ Where does your interest for Latin American History come from?īack in the Middle Ages, when I was a student in College, it was hard not to follow the Cuban revolution, the October 1962 missile crisis, the Alliance for Progress, the emergence of guerrilla movements in Latin America, the debates about Latin American economic development. The second deals with the Latin-American history of the 19 th century while the third tackles the 20 th century. The first part concerns the period of revolutions of independences in the early 19 th century.
His academics posts have included visiting professorships at El Colegio de México, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National University of Buenos Aires, the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, and the Instituto Ortega y Gassett in Madrid.ĢThis interview was done in New York City in November 2013. He is a former president of the American Historical Association and Latin American Studies Association. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals including the American Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History, and the Hispanic American Historical Review and as well as social science and history journals published in Britain, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. He is the author or editor of eight books and many scholarly articles on Latin American economic and international history. Coatsworth is a specialist of Latin American history and the actual Provost of Columbia University.
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